Since the dismissal of Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge HIV and AIDS has featured prominently in the media. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the political crisis precipitated by her dismissal has been the focus of recent media coverage. Even Ronald Suresh Roberts has had his say.
The Mail & Guardian […]

IT WAS late at night after a long day, so the President needed someone to take a second look at his weekly internet letter.
He handed it to an adviser, who read it through. “Mind if I cut it back a little bit?” the adviser asked. “This miniskirt metaphor is a bit overdone.”
“I rather […]

EVERY now and then there is a story tucked between Paris Hilton and Jake White that cuts through all the nonsense and leaves one thinking: “This is why we practise journalism. This is why it is important. This is what it is all about.”
One such story was the exposé in East London’s Daily Dispatch […]

Twenty-year-old Chris is a student at a Durban tertiary institution who works part-time as an HIV/AIDS peer-educator for the institution’s Student Counseling Centre. His job is to facilitate workshops that will spur fellow students to practice safe sex. When briefed about a recent UNAIDS report that identified a reduction in the number of concurrent sexual […]

South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala Routledge was dismissed from her post on the eve of National Women’s Day. At an HIV/AIDS and the Media Project forum held in March this year, Madlala-Routledge engaged in conversation with journalists and editors about media coverage of HIV/AIDS. She said, “In the health budget vote debate […]